Top trial lawyer, Barry Pollack, is going to be defending Nicolas Maduro as his legal case advances, He'll be going up before 92-year-old Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Maduro has pleaded not guilty to narc...
Southeast Asia has become “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime syndica...
Canada’s transport regulator has asked Air India to investigate an incident of a pilot reporting for duty under the influence of alcohol and failing two breathalyser tests, a person familiar with the...
We have selected seven stories from the SCMP’s coverage of Asia over the past week that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, ple...
Crowds gather in Caracas following news that the US captured Venezuela's President Maduro. Jeampier Arguinzones/picture alliance via Getty Images Following the US strike in Venezuela and capture of Pr...
📋 Key Facts ✓ A shooting occurred in Bondi, contributing to physical scars and trauma. ✓ A deadly stabbing attack took place in Bondi l...
Two former employees at cybersecurity firms - one of whom was a ransomware negotiator - have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks in 2023. The Department of Justice announced ...
Grok began 2026 as it began 2025 : under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circula...
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control o...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Kaspersky identified a new malware named Stealka. ✓ Stealka disguises itself as video game mods and pirated software. ...
Another day, another report of a robbery at a Sparkasse bank in western Germany. This time, four safe-deposit boxes were emptied in broad daylight....
Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday vetoed a law dramatically reducing the prison sentence of former far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, convicted last year of coup plottin...
Prosecutors cited sabotage and arson among the possible crimes in a suspected far-left attack on Berlin's power supply. A group claiming the attack said it was targeting "the fossil fuel economy."...
Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday vetoed a law dramatically reducing the prison sentence of former far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, convicted last year of coup plottin...
Elon Musk’s AI Grok has been fiercely criticised in recent days, after the chatbot began generating sexualised images of women and girls, flooding the app with explicit content. Some of the images inv...
Videos verified by the Observers team show Iranian security forces attacking a hospital in Ilam, Iran, on the night of 3-4 January. The footage shows security forces firing shotguns and tear gas as th...
John Michael Garza Jr. was charged last week by federal complaint with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization....
Southern California police are investigating a wave of similar burglaries involving trading card businesses in a bid to establish whether they are linked. Thieves made off with thousands of dollars' w...